does matter and if you are lying that has consequences. it had a consequence for dominion in the horrible here the grievous blow to the reputation that it had over the past couple of years and the threats the death threats that the company really continues to receive, and it had a consequence for fox. today they paid nearly three quarters of over three quarters of a billion dollars. alright justin nelson, thank you so much, and i want to turn to alison. you worked at fox for 16 years. what do you make of the fact that fox viewers won t hear a retraction or apology outright? i consider this a win for fox. i considered a win for dominion, as he just said. they get a lot of money, and it helps their checkbook. i don t know that it helps their reputation because if they if fox never has to make a correction or retraction, how is it going to help their reputation when they were disseminating disinformation to fox viewers? so now they re not going to make a correction on air to fox viewers?
he s speaking to as a litigator, essentially look, that may be the goal of the court of public opinion in this being really the illustration of accountability since the post election lies but for them as lawyers, they don t want to be in trial, handing over their case to 12 members, which you know, the lawyer in me is saying, i understand our clients said it was a failure. she went to trial. but then why then? did fox not settled this earlier? right? this has been going on for 2.5 years, right? and i think that was another point. gretchen carlson made, um and they had to pay out. all this money and they did not have to do the on air apology, according to the statement, according to new york times reporting, but they did release this statement this week. sauce statement is alison rightly points out? um so why didn t they do this earlier? legal experts i ve been talking to say they absolutely should have because they would have avoided so much embarrassment leading up to the trial and al
quickly reunited him with his parents. turned to talk to question him. thank you so much for joining us tonight. i ll be back here tomorrow night. cnn tonight with alison camerata starts now. hey alison. adorable story, pam. yes, it is. we ll cover it a little bit, too. thanks so much. thank you. good evening, everyone. i m alison camerata. welcome to cnn tonight . what does it mean when it s black 16 year old cannot ring the wrong door bell. without getting shot or a white 20 year old cannot make a wrong turn into someone s driveway without getting shot. or our second amendment rights, outweighing many of our other rights are panel has an interesting take on that. plus fox has to cough up $787 million for their outrageous lies about dominion voting systems. but you know who will never know about this fox viewers because the settlement does not include an on air apology or correction. the network put out a statement
base case damages model, so we see, today s settlement is complete vindication and really a message that as your opening, said, lies do have consequences . um, and it s about having coming back to the shared facts because ultimately we can agree or disagree on issues even to the most profound importance. we have to have shared facts in this society to have a functioning democracy, and i think today s settlement was a real step in that direction. and so what i hear from you is that there is this acknowledgement in the statement, plus the money from the settlement. there was no apology in this statement. from our from what i am gathering from you and i m going to open this up for my colleagues to ask questions, but just one final point on that how much of a sticking point to reach the settlement was an apology or retraction. how much of a role did that play in the settlement negotiations? because i know that was something dominion was asking for early on. well i don t really want to
of fox, are they owed an apology or retraction here? i mean, if they don t know about this, where is the accountability that you speak of? well it s a really good question, and i think part of what really is going on here is that we are sometimes we re in these bubbles. and what happened to dominion was that it just got caught in this torrent of lies and got brought into this alternative universe where conspiracy theories dominated. this is a civil litigation case and what we think happened here was we took the civil litigation as far as we can take it. we could have gone all the way to verdict and under defamation law. you don t get an apology. you get money. and so what we achieved here with the statement that fox made with the certainty of money and again from our damages. ah we had a base case damages model, and then we had a growth damages model, and the settlement today was above our